Did I really stay up until 2:30am hauling scrap metal and ore between two shitty little backwaters to blow all my profits on a pointless HUD crosshair and, admittedly far more useful, pulse laser?

Yes. Yes, I think I did.

Brilliant stuff

It's worth noting that you can remap all the controller inputs except A and Y. So you can, for example, swap the yaw control to the left stick and roll to the right as well as putting fire on the trigger. I found that makes combat much more natural.